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It's vital to find the root causes
News, Published on 27/12/2012
» With its low pay and long working hours, teaching is an unenviable job. But in the three southernmost provinces, it is also highly risky because of the deadly threat posed by Islamic extremist gangs. Grim statistics which show 157 teachers or educators killed in the past nine years, including four who were murdered within the space of 19 days between Nov 22 and Dec 11, provide a chilling reminder of the perils to anyone aspiring to become a teacher in the strife-torn region.
All we want for Christmas is less South strife
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/12/2012
» All we want for Christmas is often something we can't get. World peace? Poverty eradication? That would make Santa sweat like a North Pole pig. No more violence, no more discrimination, no more settlements in the West Bank, no more brutality against the Rohingya, no more extremism, no more torture, no more drone attacks, no more school shootings, no more global warming, no more deportation of migrant workers, no more censorship, no more floods, earthquakes, tsunamis - wish for those and we're going to sound like John "Imagine" Lennon with flowers in his hair, though I believe Lennon was often right in general and wrong in some particulars.
Southern attacks are terror by any definition
News, Published on 09/12/2012
» The statement on Thursday by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yabamrung that there is no terrorism in Thailand is nothing short of bizarre. Mr Chalerm was responding to a report released last week by the Australian Institute for Economics and Peace that ranked Thailand eighth in a global list of 158 countries where terrorism has had the most impact over the past decade. The index takes into account the number of terrorist incidents, fatalities, injuries and damage, and says an astounding 5% of global terrorist incidents from 2002 to 2009 occurred in Thailand. Pakistan, India and Afghanistan accounted for 12%, 11% and 10% respectively.
Postbag: In defence of Muslims
News, Published on 05/12/2012
» I would like to reply to the letter from J C Wilcox that appeared in PostBag on Monday.
Govt is hardly convincing about the South
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/12/2012
» All the 300-plus schools in Pattani province which closed on Nov 26 after the killing two days before of a school director in Nong Chik district by suspected extremists are due to reopen today after Education Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana promised to look into the teachers' demands.
Political will key to South
News, Published on 23/11/2012
» When a bomb planted on the railway tracks in Narathiwat exploded on Sunday, killing three and injuring more than 30 passengers, questioning eyes turned to the government and the security forces.
Southern folk need their say
News, Published on 26/10/2012
» When a group of 93 insurgents turned up to discuss amnesty deals with the military in Narathiwat last month, the incident was played up as a mass surrender that would pave the way toward peace in the restive deep South. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Eight years after Tak Bai, and no closer to peace
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/10/2012
» Today is the eighth anniversary of the Tak Bai tragedy – one of the worst blunders ever committed by the military in the restive deep South.
Protecting Thailand's Malalas
News, Published on 25/10/2012
» The recent shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai shocked the world and put a spotlight on the fate of children in one of the world's most dangerous places to go to school. But Thailand's three southern border provinces also make it onto that list of places where students and teachers each day fear turning up for school.
Plugging the vaccination equity gap will save millions
News, Published on 12/10/2012
» Countries in South and Southeast Asia are going through unprecedented economic growth despite uncertainties in the global economic situation. To be able to maintain this upward trend countries need to secure the health of their citizens _ especially the children. A high mortality rate among among the under fives threatens overall economic development in the region. Approximately 10 million children in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) South-East Asia Region remain at risk from diseases like measles, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, all of which are vaccine preventable.